Alexandra Horowitz is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, and On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation. She is also a professor and dog cognition researcher at Barnard College. She has written about attention, imitation, fairness, guilt, captivity, patents, play, and footnotes; essays on animal representation in children's books and things people say to their dogs; on topics from anthropomorphisms of animals to dog cloning. She has been described as "a New World reverse of the Oulipo eminence Georges Perec,"[1] a "skilled investigative reporter"[2], and a "reasonably sane adult human."[3] She is currently working on her sixth book, a series of biographical portraits of nonhuman animals.
At MacDowell, Horowitz completed chapters in her upcoming nonfiction book tentatively entitled Encountering Animals; each chapter is a biographical portrait of a nonhuman animal, from a tardigrade to the orangutan who inspired Darwin.
[1] Harper's[2] Kirkus Reviews[3] Boston Globe
